If my close friends come to me with their relationship problems, I can understand that. I'm probably pretty trustworthy and stuff, and they're probably looking to keep things on the down-low. You know, no gossiping and such. But people who I barely know? Who I've talked to like twice in five years ( Read more... )

I was watching a rerun of House and I solved the medical mystery well before House did. God, I'm good.

Takeaway: I just don't understand how you can put $300 million into a highly speculative project involving a more-or-less wholly new way of making film and then fail to come up with a better name for a key plot point than "unobtainium."

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I find, lately, that when it is late at night and I want to procrastinate from working on my thesis, I sometimes spend time pointlessly reading about philosophy. I came across this particular argument recently and found it pretty funny and worth posting about in a frivolous waste of time.

( Pointless argument follows. )

Barring unexpected developments, it looks like I'm going to UC Hastings Law School. I got waitlisted at UCLA, but I don't think they'll let me in off the waitlist, and at this point, I'm not even sure I'd go. I think the Bay Area is where I want to be ( Read more... )

I've seen at least two or three different articles in the mainstream media now about a resurgence of interest in renowned author/philosopher/idiot Ayn Rand, and her most famous work Atlas Shrugged. More specifically, a number of conservative activists and pundits have taken to suggesting that the truly great workers in society should "go Galt." " ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7999909.stm

Headline: Man bites snake in epic struggle
Need I say more?

What follows is an analysis of the possible use of mixed strategies in creating a subgame perfect Nash equilibrium in the repeated coin game, which is defined in the next paragraph ( Read more... )